Oliver Twist, in full Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boys Progress novel by Charles Dickens, printed in a series under the pseudonym "Boz" from 1837 to 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany and in a three-volume book in 1838.

The book was the first of the novelist's pragmatic writing.

The book Oliver Twist shows a real picture of the shabby lives of criminals, and exhibits the brutal treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.

In an early example of the social novel, Dickens disdains child labour, domestic violence, the training of children as criminals, and the presence of street children.

He depicts his view that scarcity of money tends to crime